That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

What is one man's gain is another's loss.

We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.